By the Mersey metropolitan area I was referring to the Liverpool urban area (pop 816,000) rather than the even more enormous area of Merseyside (yes that is 1.37m). Either way the figures simply don't add up.
And I maintain my charge of selective credulity. My finger points unwaveringly at you Baboonery. I'll move on when I'm ready.
Why didn't you say that, then? Because you were jsut plucking a figure out of the air to support your great Evertonian lie and didn't expect to get called out on it?
OK, clever man, what would YOUR estimate of the crowds that lined the 18-mile route and gathered in the city centre on 26 May 2005 be(allowing for double counting)?